What is 100 in Chinese?

What is 100 in Chinese?

Answer: The number one hundred in Chinese is 一百 pronounced yībǎi.

How to count in Chinese

The number system in Chinese is much more logical than in English. The number for one is just one dash (一) and is pronounced (yī). The number two has two horizontal dashes (二 ) and it’s own pronunciation (èr). Numbers 1-10 all have unique sounds. What gets clever in the Chinese number system is how they deal with numbers above ten.

Counting in tens in Chinese

The number for ten is “十” pronounced “shí.” The number for eleven is simply “十一 ” or “shí yī.” That’s right, it’s literally translated as ten one. Likewise, twelve is just “十二” and the teens follow in order.

Now, what happens when you get to twenty? An equally as logical answer.

The Chinese number for twenty is “二十” or “èr shí” meaning literally “two ten.” Perfectly logical right? So guess how you say twenty-one? 二十一 or èr shí yī: two ten one. Beautiful! So that means if you learn just the first ten numbers and understand the logic, you can already count to ninety-nine in Chinese!

Counting Beyond 99 in Chinese

After 99, you need to learn the words for hundred, thousand, ten thousand, and so on. But, the rules of logic will stay the same. Follow the full Chinese Number table below to learn all the necessary number words in Chinese!

Full Chinese Number Table

English

Chinese

Pinyin

zero

零

líng

one

一

yī

two

二

èr

three

三

sān

four

四

sì

five

五

wǔ

six

六

liù

seven

七

qī

eight

八

bā

nine

九

jiǔ

ten

十

shí

eleven

十一

shí yī

twenty

二十

èr shí

twenty-one

二十一

èr shí yī

thirty

三十

sān shí

forty

四十

sì shí

fifty

五十

wǔ shí

sixty

六十

liù shí

seventy

七十

qī shí

eighty

八十

bā shí

ninety

九十

jiǔ shí

one hundred

一百

yībǎi

one hundred ten

一百一

yībǎi yī

one thousand

一千

yī qiān

ten thousand

万

wàn

one hundred thousand

十万

shí wàn

one million

一百万

yī bǎi wàn

one billion

十亿

shí yì

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